CHAPTER ELEVEN
Kicks
GET SOME
Ponder this: How often do they smile? How often do you smile?
How do you feel about fun at work? Do you believe in it? Have it? Support it? Make it happen? Discourage it? Evaluate your own assumptions about fun at work. Then consider creating and supporting kicks in the workplace as one way to keep your best people.
Research shows that a fun-filled workplace generates enthusiasm—and that enthusiasm leads to increased productivity, better customer service, a positive attitude about the company, and higher odds that your talent will stay.
Fun for One—Fun for All?
If we are hungry for fun, we are “starved” for fun at work.
—Leslie Yerkes, author of 301 Ways to Have Fun at Work
When was the last time you had fun ...
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